chapter 25

The day started strangely for Izuku, it started with Izuku heading to town to buy ingredients for the cafe, something that turned common for him to do every morning, however that day a villain attack occurred, making him stay in the middle of the scene, even though the location is close to U.A., there was some acts of villainy happening everyday, it was the first time he was caught in a villain attack in the area though.

A villain, his body had green skin, scales covering his body, a very strange white cloth covering his eyes, and what surprised Izuku more, was the agglomerated amount of knives the villain carried around, only being kept together by some belts that were totally not prepared to hold swords, as some had cuts.

Mic's scream sounded, right in the direction of the villain, not being able to bear the sound, the villain dropped his 'sword' and covered his hears, "T-This was not supposed to happen! I must carry Stain's ideal."

This caught Izuku's attention, moving out of the area of the fight, Izuku analyzed the fight, noticing the reptilian man grabbing his sword, only to crumble to the ground, only leaving the man with a short sword, resembling a small katana, with a surprising quick thinking, the green man jumped, avoiding the incoming attack from Mic, and ran through the alleyways.

Reptile man not noticing Izuku following from the rooftops, continued until he thought it was safe, sighing, the lizard took a look at his sword, "I was supposed to correct society...", guarding his sword in a scabbard he had in his belt, he pulled a sleeve up, a cut leaking red fluid appearing in view, he hissed, taking a handkerchief out of his pocket and covering his wound. "How am I supposed to live in this society..."

His mumbles were low, Izuku couldn't hear them anymore, but on the phone he was, a smile on his face, he knew that there was someone that would appreciate company, even though he didn't show such emotions. Izuku got down from the rooftop.

The lizard man looked at the boy, flinching at the surprise of his appearance, narrowing his eyes he asked, "What are you doing here boy? Its dangerous." Izuku opened his mouth, saying some words that made the lizard man's eyes widen. "What do you mean by that?"

"What else?" Izuku stated, looking at every small movement the green man made. "Now." Izuku looked straight at the man, "Why do you want to correct society?" A smile crept into Izuku's lips.

"Why not? Did you look at me?" The Lizard man pointed to himself, "I'm a lizard!"

"Why is that a problem?" Izuku questioned, looking actually confused.

"Exactly! This society is corrupt! What bad is there from being a lizard!?" The emotion in every word of the man surprised Izuku, "Why do I have to be mistreated because of something I had no control over!?"

Izuku heard every word, he was able to relate to the man, he was also treated like that after all, "Why do heroes take the word of 'normal' civilians over mine!? Just because I'm green and have scales!? This society is crumbling..."

Izuku let out a sight, "I understand that very well."

"How can you understand? You are just a kid." The man turned around, prepared to leave.

"I understand all too well, after all, I'm quirkless, or better was. I had the opportunity to see how people changed how they saw me because I got a quirk."

Now fully turned to Izuku, the man's eyes showed an unreadable emotion, "Then how can you say, 'Turn into a villain, and save this society'?"

A form appeared besides Izuku, "You are lucky I was close by." It said.

"Yeah, I'm thankful, so? What do you think of him?" Izuku asked looking at the man besides him.

"Rough around the edges... No experience is evident... But the ideal is right. I will take him."

The lizard's eyes widened at the sight of the man, "S-Stain!?"

"You are lucky. If it was not Izuku's word for it, I wouldn't accept you. What's your name?"

"Ig-- Spinner."

"Then Spinner, I have to train you first, before work starts." And with that, both man vanish into the darkness of the alley.

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"Are you serious?" Shinso asked, looking at a mountain of paper Izuku dropped into a table. Ochako besides him just looking exhausted.

"Yeah." Izuku happily stated, "Your analysis skills are what will keep you alive after all. so study this information, this are just some villain information I found, I want you to at least find counters for their quirks for a quarter of them." Turning to Ochako he said, "And I hope at least half of you. You are training for longer, after all."

The girl rised a fist, letting out a smile, as if her exhaustion disappeared, "You can count on that!"

A week as already passed since Shinso started training under Izuku, and the taller boy is getting a grip on how Izuku works, massive amounts of work and training.

And with the task handed to both of them, Izuku started his work in the cafe. Approaching Aizawa, he smiled, "I already passed the boy, but more preparation is not bad." He said, as he read the expression of Aizawa.

"Already saw that... And..." Showing a stack of papers to Izuku, Aizawa huffed, "Can you look at this designs?"

Izuku grabbed one, "This is practically being naked..." He bluntly stated, as he looked at a paper from 'Yaoyorozu Momo'.

"My job now is looking through this, and make descriptions so that they became actually legal suits for use." He explained.

Izuku looked at one of the ones already commented, "You better not forget that they are my age... 15 years old... Being completely shirtless is not appropriate..."

Aizawa sighted, "At least the boy as shoulder guards."

Izuku sat besides the man, "Ask this one to give a piece of her hair... And make a suit like Mirio's, so that she won't literally be naked... I'm pretty sure that there are stretchable materials, like Mt.Lady's suit, that can tear easily to make things pass through, that wouldn't be bad for this Yaoyorozu... Wait isn't she from a supper rich family? Is it okay to just let a description saying, 'give more clothes to suit' enough?" Izuku started.

Sharing opinions Aizawa's lips turned upwards, even though slightly, up till now, Izuku only saw Aizawa laugh or even smile when Nezu is being mocked, or when he is torturing someone, verbally... Physically is just crime.

"This shirtless guy's quirk is harden, so I can picture why he wants to be shirtless, but having a tight protective fabric wouldn't be bad. I'm sure Uraraka doesn't want skin-tight suit, don't know why you added the comment, also adding some stuff wouldn't be bad, like grappling for movement use... Also I made some designs of a mask for Shinso, so he can use his quirk more in battles of attrition." Aizawa nodded at the information, as he saw Izuku writing notes in each costume of his future class, "This girl thought right, but only having a weapon on her legs isn't very useful, maybe making a smaller weaker version to her wrists can help... This costume is made to only be useful underwater, but frogs also work on land, having more elemental resistances on the suit wouldn't be bad."

Izuku pointed at another one, "This boy with an electric quirk's suit isn't bad, but he probably won't be able to direct his quirk, I have an idea how to correct this, but I never actually saw him using the quirk so I can't actually say, but he states that he can eat electricity, so having a taser as emergency energy wouldn't be bad..." Looking at the file from Bakugo's suit he smiled, "He actually followed with this..." An old paper, it was a old idea Izuku cam, in the elementary school, when both boys were friendly, Izuku showed this idea of gauntlets that would store his sweat, and then release it for bigger explosions, Izuku formed a bigger smile on his face.1

Looking at the remaining papers Izuku's mouth formed a 'o', "You also have Shoto in your class." Aizawa nodded. "Well, there is not much I can say about this, the remaining I actually need to see how the quirks work to help out."

"Thanks." Aizawa said softly as Izuku got up and headed to work.

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It was finally the day before the first day of classes, Izuku handed a small envelop to Shinso, a big smile on his face, "Congratulations. You are in U.A."

Shinso's smile is something Izuku wants to remember for the rest of his life, a smile of pure happiness, a smile that told thousand tales of stories before the happening, the purple haired boy will finally take a step towards his dream. "You are free of training, head home and relax for tomorrow." Shinso nods and heads out, almost skipping steps as he heads home.

Izuku inspected the house during the slow shift, there were only 3 costumers, and Dabi could handle them easily, Toga was not needed in the kitchen anymore for the day, and Ochako already did her shift, and was training in the gym, Twice was overseeing her training, and Eri was having a nice nap in Toga's lap as she was enjoying a new show on the TV.

Izuku sat besides Toga, and Toga let her head fall into Izuku's shoulder, both were now enjoying the show, Izuku was nervous, not from anger obviously, but fear, he was still registered as quirkless after all, immortality is not a quirk that can be shared to the system, and Nezu was keeping that information, for security reasons.

He feared that the school's students will push him down, like Aldera's did, bully him into submission, making him feel worthless, make others turn their backs to him, ma--

Every bad thought inside Izuku's head vanished, Toga gripped his hand, interlocking her fingers in his', a light blush on her face, as she could feel the boy tense slightly at her touch.

Izuku let out a sight, and tightened his hold on her, Izuku felt safe with her, someone who in their first meeting stabbed him, Izuku thinking back, he didn't know what to say, who would bring a criminal with him to his house, one clearly after blood, accept and live with others with similar pasts.

Situations that would only happen in fiction, he felt blessed, every person that came into his life after that miserable moment of his life was kind and supportive.

Meeting people he never thought existed, them accepting him, and him accepting them.

But in the corner of his mind, there was that silent voice, one that darkened his thoughts, one that was making him doubt the people he cared about.

Are they really my friends?

Can I trust them?

Are they only with me because of my quirk?

Those thoughts vanishing as Eri gripped his shirt in his sleep, soft mumbles coming from her mouth as she slept happily.

Izuku wants to believe them, they are his everything now, and in trade he will give them his everything.

He starts questioning himself, in other matters not related to school, thinking and giving theories to the most pointless of matters, time passed quickly, and there Izuku slept, Toga half asleep as she watched the show, not allowing herself to fall asleep, with Eri on their lap, her body moving to be closer to the two, gathering warmth from both teenagers.

Tomorrow, School will start.